Showtime’s new dark comedy series The Big C, starring Laura Linney as a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer, will premiere Monday, Aug. 16 and will air at 10:30 p.m. It will follow the network’s comedy Weeds whose sixth season also debuts Aug. 16.

Showtime also has set June 10 as premiere date for the eighth season of Penn & Teller: Bullshit, which is being paired with the new roundtable comedy series The Green Room with Paul Provenza at 10:30 p.m.

New reality series The Real L Word debuts June 20 and will air on Sundays where the scripted L Word Showtime that inspired it once ran.

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so over • on May 2, 2010 10:37 am

Weeds should just be over….they started out funny, and got very
dark…….go away, this show should go away….or move back into a cool home with a pool, and start all over again, fresh,,,,stop going south of the border……get some fun and laughs,,,,not dark ugly scenes….abusive to women…horrible…